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- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017) Seán Fleming: Satellites.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017) Seán Fleming: We understand. Roads can be put in across land-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017) Seán Fleming: Will the Department make a large investment in drones and cameras to get this right for the future?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017) Seán Fleming: After all that, I ask Mr. O'Driscoll to make his opening statement. His point about all the payments not before us today is well made. We want to see those accounts and we will discuss that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017) Seán Fleming: Deputy Cullinane's point concerns the detail of what we will be discussing and we will ask Mr. O'Driscoll to answer his question. We are delving into a specific matter that will be raised later. My point started as a general point and the Deputy's point is one that will be answered during the course of the meeting. We will come back to it. After all that, I now ask Mr. O'Driscoll to move...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017) Seán Fleming: I thank Mr O'Driscoll for his opening statement. I call Deputy Bobby Aylward.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017) Seán Fleming: The next point will be the last.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017) Seán Fleming: Time flies.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017) Seán Fleming: The Deputy will get round two.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017) Seán Fleming: If the farmer paid the superlevy fine upfront, could he or she write it off against tax?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017) Seán Fleming: Mr. O'Driscoll will find out. That might be an incentive to pay it upfront. I merely make the point.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017) Seán Fleming: I am sorry, the Deputy can finish the next point.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017) Seán Fleming: Mr. O'Driscoll might explain to those present and who are watching whether there are ministerial appointees to the board. Presumably, there is a liaison officer between the Department and Bord na gCon who keeps in touch on daily matters, budgets and other activities. Apprise us of the practical arrangements.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017) Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017) Seán Fleming: It has attended previously, but the Deputy is right. The Limerick stadium was the subject of detailed discussions during the previous Dáil. Will Mr. O'Driscoll explain his Department's practical contacts? It cannot just give Bord na gCon €14 million and let it go.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017) Seán Fleming: There must be some liaison. What is the process?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017) Seán Fleming: We understand all of that. Directors have fiduciary duties.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017) Seán Fleming: Even if they are appointed by Ministers, their duties are to the board, not the Ministers. However, Mr. O'Driscoll is the Accounting Officer writing the cheque for €14 million per annum.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017) Seán Fleming: Mr. O'Driscoll has not explained the day-to-day or month-to-month relationship. Does the liaison officer, whoever it may be, meet Bord na gCon once per month, once per week or three times per year? What is the purpose of those meetings? What happens? We know about the board, but we are asking about departmental officials. The Department must have someone with a watching brief, seeing as...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017) Seán Fleming: Fine.